We Can Muzzle The Westboro Baptist "Cult" Without The Supremes

7 year-old Boaz ôBoö Drain told ABC NewsÆ Chris Cuomo recently that ôgays, fags, hundreds and hundreds of Jews and many others (other than those in his Church) were destined for eternal damnationö.This little bundle of hate and confusion spewed this garbage while his equally deranged ôlovingö father, Steve, loudly coached him into these diatribes off camera. The Drain family (eerily reminiscent of ôThe Addams Familyö) are just a fraction of the 70-75 member Westboro Baptist CULT, okay church if I must, that have become the personification of 21st century anti-social, hate mongering, intolerant idiots that hide, like the cowards that they are, behind the all embracing cloak of religion.

These Westboro creatures, led by Fred Phelps (I refuse to refer to him as Pastor), are united by a narcissistic doctrine. They have somehow justified their evil, vile protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq, media profiled murders of innocent victims, and any opportunity available (like the death of movie star icon Tony Curtis over the weekend) as actions that are adhering strictly to the commands of the Bible.

This Topeka, Kansas based circus chose the wrong funeral to violate when they selected 20 year-old Iraq War victim Matthew SnyderÆs service on March 10, 2006. MatthewsÆ father, Albert Snyder, saw and heard the putrid belchings from Phelps and his ilk outside of the proceedings for his son and decided that he would not allow these cretins to defile the memory of any other young soldier in front of their family, as he had experienced. Albert filed a civil suit in federal court, seeking justice for his son through the legal system, and was victorious on October 31, 2007 (the Halloween connection is PRICELESS), winning a total of $10.9 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages against the PhelpsÆ rabble. Westboro appealed the decision and on September 24, 2009 the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals of the Federal Court not only did they get the original decision overturned and ruled in their favor on 1st amendment (freedom of speech) reasons, but then the anguished father of fallen L Cpl. Mathew A Snyder was ordered by the court to pay the $16,510.00 court costs incurred by the Westboro CULT. How could this glaring injustice occur?

The 1st amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads ôCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech (this line is the key), or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievancesö. Of all of the 27 amendments of our sacred U.S. Constitution, the 1st one truly defines and distinguishes America from all of the other countries because it protects, by law, every citizens personal speech, activities, beliefs, etc.; up to a point. What point?

To the point where our Supreme Court decides that the same freedom of speech that is to be protected and guarded jealously has crossed the line of civility into the arena of violent provocation. The Supreme Court case of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire dealt with the issue of personal slurs and obscene utterances by Chaplinsky that had the potential to lead to the result of violence by the offended parties in New Hampshire upon him.

In 1942 Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, writing the opinion for the 9-0 unanimous court in the Chaplinsky case, opined that ôFighting words are those which, by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peaceö. While that definition would seem to apply to the Westboro crew, subsequent Supreme decisions over the years have rendered vague the clarity of Justice Murphy when it comes to ôfighting wordsö.

Today, October 6, 2010 our venerable Supreme Court will hear Snyder v. Phelps and weigh the protections of the 1st amendment for free, even if horrid, speech against the ôfighting wordsö precedent of the Chaplinsky case of 1942. I believe, because of my unemotional adherence to the protections of us all within the 1st amendment, that Old loony Freddie Phelps and his collection of cultists will prevail in the court case because unimaginably mean speech cannot be distinguished, legally, from other disagreeable forms of speech. ItÆs true.

But, I believe that I have a backdoor solution to foil Freddie and the beasts.

When the Westboro Baptist CULT folks appear at the next funeral to spew their sick diatribes, they should be met with multiple loudspeakers repeatedly playing the hits of openly gay musical artists. How about YMCA by the Village People followed by a medley of Elton John hits? Then, of course the song, ôItÆs Raining Menö by Two Tons of Fun should make their intestines disturbed for decades.

While that psychological nightmare is visiting the Phelps crew, local authorities can be allowed, even encouraged, to cite the group with even the slightest violation of local law. Everything from littering, expectorating, jay walking, noise statute violations, disobeying the directions of officers of the law, possibly inciting a riot, etc. should be written in the form of the most expensive tickets that will keep these walking wastes of GodÆs breath busy responding to paperwork instead of organizing ungodly rallies at funerals. A concerted effort must be employed in every city that they invade to creatively and legally keep them busy with reacting to complaints that, by the way, they must adequately and in a TIMELY way respond to; all the while undermining their lunatic plans.

In order to combat lunacy you must create lunatic conditions. Yes, they succeed because our system of jurisprudence protects their right to be an ass but that same system also allows for legal harassment of consistent and troublesome nuisances by applying every obscure rule of law to their very existence.

Hey Freddie, how would it feel if we ôOut Crazyö you by making your very presence in America a legal nightmare? There are some extreme circumstances where the public good is achieved by focusing the perverse power of government bureaucratic abuse on a nut that earns this extreme anvil of justice.

I donÆt believe I just wrote that. Mr. Snyder, for you, IÆm glad that I did.